单词 | replough |
释义 | reploughreplowv. transitive. To plough again or once more (in various senses of the verb). Also intransitive. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > breaking up land > ploughing > plough (land) [verb (transitive)] > plough again twifallow1428 replough1683 re-fallow1775 backset1883 1683 J. Reid Scots Gard'ner ii. ii. 67 At Spring re-plow or re-delve..and apply dungs and manures. 1733 J. Tull Horse-hoing Husbandry xi. 52 This way of Re-plowing the Ridges, moves all the Earth of them. 1793 A. Geddes tr. J. B. Gresset Ver-Vert (ed. 2) iv. 39 The vessel stood Unmoor'd, and ready to replough the flood. 1856 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. I. 28 The farms were rebuilt, the lands reploughed, the island repeopled. 1880 Times 23 June 5/1 An abundant crop is not to be hoped for, on account of the large number of fields that had to be re-ploughed and sown afresh in the spring. 1921 H. Guthrie-Smith Tutira (1926) 154 The sheep camps were each season ploughed and reploughed by innumerable wild pig. 1960 Michigan Law Rev. 58 981 Many law review articles in which..scholars examined the legal, financial, and policy aspects of accruals. It is not the intent here to replow that ground. 1983 J. C. Cool in P. M. Blaikie & H. C. Brookfield Land Degradation & Society (1987) ii. 42 The mountain farmer rebuilds, reploughs, reseeds and survives. 2002 N.Z. Herald (Nexis) 28 Nov. Truckloads of soil were brought in to create the gently rolling hills of Hobbiton and a field overlooking the lake was reploughed to appear like hobbit-farmed land. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1683 |
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